Perpetually abroad, Modi loses sight of the grassroots mauled by demonetization

[wiseone2]

Exactly. So, the question is, if you remove the middleman, where is the alternate supply chain?

technology has reduced the need for middlemen

Most of the costs are due to the long transport times & costs, which hopefully GST will address.
GST will do wonders to the farm sector especially. Now a farmer can sell his wares anywhere in India.

It would be interesting to do a study on how much cost the transport adds to perishables both with in the state as well as across the states.

GST cannot fix the woes of the transport sector

It is a money grab by the Central government to take money from richer states and dump it on political ratholes

 

[baajey]

Obv whoever was in opposition the most....i.e non-congress parties. But there is productive hay making and hay flinging....more of the latter is happening now most unfortunately. I do expect better of Indian opposition parties (targeting real issues/lapses constructively) given the improved socioeconomic climate of India now compared to when were in terrible dire straits for a good 30 - 40 years.

Someone has to take first step on that, it is not on BJP to really do so since they occupying the castle right now....but even with that I have found they actually are open to criticizing themselves a lot more (given they got no holy dynasty to protect) compared to others...but looks like no one wants to try change tack outside the castle.

We'll let Indian public decide which is more relevant and mature to them....and hoepfully that will add pressure for real structured, issue-focused + delivery-focused parties to arise, that create and enrich debate rather than engage in shouting competition - because BJP is easily going to win the latter for forseeable future (on the ground where it counts as opposed to say media where things are skewed to the old luytens guard).

No second thoughts on it.
I however, would have wished our country thought of the country first before exercising democracy. Votes can still be bought, coerced and downright forced.
Our society itself gives too many lollipops against democracy for it to function rightfully.

 

[baajey]

I already said that "we" call them sickular. By "we" I meant BJP supporters. You may say they see the world as orange - no problem in that

I never said BJP is Secular. But it is not Sikular either. It is open that it is hindu nationalist party.

My point was that there are no truly secular parties in India. So what right do other parties have to be holier than thou and declaring that they are secualr and BJP is communal

actually when u asked the other guy,"what makes you think that BJP is not secular?",i thought why not put my perspective in it.
and yes, this for sure that BJP never projected itself as a secular party, unlike other parties who say something n do something quite the contrary.
regarding the "holier than thou attitude" of party members/supporters, its as good as universal. all of the parties display such so that they go up the ladder. when UPA2 had just started, they dissed BJP as some rag tag party. when the same BJP trounced congis, the BJP supporters were up above the moon while heaping praises for modi. its like rooting for one team.
now, congis have no responsibility and loads of time at hand, what do you expect them to do.
cheers